All aboard the RUMINATOR BOOK TOUR EXPRESS! This Thursday, May 1, at 7 p.m., I’m reading from my new comedic novel, The Opposite of Everything, at the Book House in Albany’s Stuyvesant Plaza. I’m honored to have Times Union blog boss (a k a Interactive Editor) Mike Huber introduce me and moderate a Q&A on […]
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We’ve all had loss in our life. Death, sickness, divorce. A dog dies; you lose your home to the bank; your job is outsourced. It could happen to anyone, and when it does, we feel slammed. Spent. Like a hammer hit us. We react to loss in our particular way. Grow depressed. Turn to alcohol, […]
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Ruminator’s note: Last week’s death of Gabriel García Márquez, the patron of magical realism, led me to revisit what it means to live in two worlds. The real and imagined. I thought of my own split — how becoming a published author was a shockingly different experience than I expected. Borrowing material from an earlier post of […]
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Most mornings, as I walk the forest near my home with my two dogs, I carry a medium cup of coffee I bought at Stewarts. It’s a pleasant way to start the day, sipping my way past the trees as the dogs chase squirrels. The cup is disposable, of course, as is the coffee lid, […]
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When thousands of Brooklynites, including my parents, fled en masse to Long Island in the 1960s and ‘70s, I had no clue we were reinventing the Exodus. But there we were, Jews running away from traffic, noise, and crime. To a land that promised a detached house on a piece of land. Some peace and […]
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Ruminator’s Note: Countless rabbis and scholars have weighed in on the Bible, seeing lessons there that may or may not be the intention of those who wrote it. Here’s my own attempt, on the Eve of Passover. In honor of this important holiday, I’ve decided to let go of my inhibitions as a writer – […]
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I’ve thought a lot lately about an unusual man I knew thirty years ago. He was a stutterer. Had his good days, and bad days, he told me. Despite stumbling over words, and the insecurities that arise from this, he gave business presentations – and rose to become a successful art director on Madison Avenue. […]
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